Endeavor Consortium Work Group
May 31, 2007
CPE,
Present:
Todd King, EKU
Margaret Foote,
EKU
Michael
Stapleton, KCTCS
John Detwiler,
KDLA
Shirley
Ackerman, KHS
Margaret
Hecker, KSU
Leonor Lopez, KSU
Enid Wohlstein, KYVL
Betsy Hughes,
KYVL
Alex Grigg,
Lexmark
Granuaile
O'Flanagan, Morehead
Aleeah
McGinnis, Murray
Perry Bratcher,
NKU
Clara Logsdon,
St. Catharine
Ray Hyatt, Jr., UK
Tari Keller, UK
Kelly Vickery, UK
Weiling Liu, U of L
Dave Jones, U
of L
Mark Paul, U of
L
Titus Anderson,
U of L
Rose Davis, WKU
Nelda Sims, WKU
Michael Doran,
Introductions
Ex Libris Update
Voyager
development staff has doubled since merger. WebVoyage is being modernized, based on
usability testing. The enhancement
process is being accelerated.
Voyager is still being developed.
Version 7.0 is due in mid-2008 and 8.0 in early 2009. It will continue beyond this, so they
say.
Voyager 6.5.1:
This should be
available late Q2 2007. Highlights
include: better opac displays of cover art; removal of SSN from serials routing
lists; more logical displays for reference lists and headings; z39.50 gkey
searching providing relevance ranked results; pickup locations can be linked to
request groups to prevent routing to invalid locations; UB stuff; updated
voyager.ini (local workstation); IE7 and Netscape7 support; bug fixes; Ex
Libris branding in WebVoyage; interaction with Primo.
Analyzer
updates.
Voyager 7.0:
This will be a
major functionality release including: a re-designed opac using some of what's
in Primo; Oracle 10g compliance; Windows Vista; MS Access 2007; Firefox 2.0;
integration with other Ex Libris products.
Voyager 8.0:
Planning is
beginning; more enhancements; better standards support.
Update from
There are two
RFPs out: databases and courier.
Items were
recently submitted for 6-year Capital Plan. The strategy as always is: truthful,
vague, compelling.
School PSA
video creation contest winners are posted on KYVL website.
KYVL now has an
island in Second Life.
EndUser reflections
There has been
some consideration as to whether KVUG and similar meetings can be supported any
longer. It was suggested that
users'
group meetings could
be conducted via Internet2 or Second Life.
Portal Work Group
Work has
continued on hosting and funding issues.
Ex Libris wants existing customer libraries to release their information
to
Our name?
Voting will be
done during the week of June 4 by workgroup members via online survey.
Announcements
Agenda topics for next meeting?
What to do
about Voyager 6.5.1: schedule upgrade at Christmas?
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John Detwiler
Kentucky
Department for Libraries and Archives